UFC 83 Nearly Sold Out, To Feature 10 Bouts
Today the UFC officially announced UFC 83 “Serra vs. St. Pierre 2″ during a press conference hosted by UFC President Dana White in Montreal, Canada.
The event, the first ever in Canada, will be held April 19th at the Bell Centre in Montreal, a venue that holds nearly 22,000 spectators. According to the official press release announcing the event, more than 13,000 tickets were sold yesterday to UFC Fight Club members with the remainder of available tickets expected to be sold out by this afternoon.
Additionally, the UFC announced nearly the entire card for the event which remains more than two months away. The event, which will be broadcast on pay-per-view, is set to feature 10 bouts, one more than the promotion’s traditional 9-fight cards.
Here is the official fight card for the event:
Main Card
- Matt Serra vs. Georges St. Pierre
Welterweight Championship Bout - Travis Lutter vs. Rich Franklin
- Nate Quarry vs. Kalib Starnes
- Charles McCarthy vs. Michael Bisping
- Mark Bocek vs. Mac Danzig
Preliminary Bouts
- Jason MacDonald vs. Joe Doerksen
- Sam Stout vs. Rich Clementi
- Ed Herman vs. Demian Maia
- Jonathan Goulet vs. Kuniyoshi Hironaka
- Patrick Cote vs. TBD
For more on UFC 83 check out the MMAFrenzy.com rumors section.
Tags: Charles McCarthy, Demian Maia, Ed Herman, Georges St. Pierre, Jason MacDonald, Joe Doerksen, Jonathan Goulet, Kalib Starnes, Kuniyoshi Hironaka, Mac Danzig, Mark Bocek, Matt Serra, Michael Bisping, Nate Quarry, Patrick Cote, Rich Clementi, Rich Franklin, Sam Stout, Travis Lutter
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UFC is absolutely brutal. I went down to their event in Vegas on Saturday, then they post tickets on sale on Sunday so anyone who went to the event has almost zero chance of getting seats.
They made a big deal about the fight club fans being the core or the UFC and this is how they treat us.
On Friday, at the weigh in, the question was asked of the officials and GSP about the sale and no one knew the date.
great card cant wait only problem is why have that prick danzig on the main card ide much rather watch ed herman, jason macdonald or sam stout come to think of it ide rather watch any of the preliminary bouts,
I hear ya Johnboy but i guess Danzig the TUF winner gets the nod. Otherwise why have the TV show.
You would think if Cote is in fact on the card that would bump him up to Main Event status no??
Dana Danzig before Cote and stout now give your head a shake maybe u have to up your meds to see everything more clearly.I mean how many more fights does cote and sam have to give you like there brawls in the past before they get the respect they really deserve.Man wake the f*** up already
I’m thinking that Cote will be fighting Leites if Thales will be healthy in time for the event. And I like the idea of UFC going with 10 fights on the PPV cards now. It gives them a better choice of prelim fights to show on the PPV to fill time and it also helps to build up more contenders.
Hey Drifter, you could of easily gotten tickets online like the rest of us 13 000 lucky suckers
I saw a few rumours that maybe Ed Herman might go up against Cote whispered around the corners of the net. Take it with a grain of salt.
Either way the excitement and buzz around this event is great and I can’t wait to hear 22 000+ chanting G!S!P!
to be fair any of the fights could be main card, i relly hope danzig gets beat any1 think he will?
I heard that Cote will be doing French play-by-play for the PPV. I don’t know why he’s not fighting as they seem to be trying to squeeze in as many Canadian fighters as possible. If he does fight I’m sure he’ll be on the main card, given that he’s French-Canadian and he’s won his last couple main card fights.
Danzig is a punk. I hope he gets pummeled.
I just don’t understand why Sam Stout has been put on the undercard of the last two UFC cards he’s been in, especially after being the main event with Spencer Fisher and delivering a hell of a war. Don’t get me wrong I’ll take a good old American any day over a Canadian, but I have to respect when they “bring it” like Stout does.
Hey Anonymous … I think you missed the point that it is kinda hard to get online to buy tickets to an event while I’m away at a UFC event … where they had no info on when tickets would go on sale – I spoke directly to a person from Zuffa. Does that not seem a little strange to you?
Incidentally, my Zuffa contact has come through and got me four tickets row FF section 112 … So I guess I’ll be one of those lucky suckers too
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just don’t be cheap, if a guy can spend 550 on a seat for the fight, 80 bucks for the fight club membership should be jack****, i’m glad it almost sold out, at least we know they will come back again
Cote/TBA or Stout/Clementi should be on the main card ahead of Quarry/Starnes IMO. For the UFC, Danzig definitely has to be on the main card as the most recent TUF champ.
Makes no difference to me however, since I got my tix. Not great ones (dude’s gotta have a budget…) but I’ll be there cheering on with my fellow Quebecers and Canadians. War GSP!
Del: “I’m glad it almost sold out, at least we know they will come back again”
Good point man, but I still would have have preferred it if they hadn’t done a presale. I haven’t been able to get a hole of any tickets.
I’M STILL WONDERING THEY DIDN’T PUT LOISEAU AS A COMEBACK FIGHT, HE’S TRAINING REALLY HARD AND WOULD OF BEEN PERFECT FOR THIS EVENT.